With their powerful noses and passion for helping people, detection dogs remind us why dogs truly are man's best friend As a ...

The hand-holding behavior takes on special significance between mother sea otters and their pups. A newborn sea otter pup cannot swim for the first few weeks of life, making the mother’s care ...

Sea otters have since become the textbook example of this concept, with their influence on coastal ecosystems vastly disproportionate to their numbers. As apex predators in nearshore environments, sea ...

Hunted for their fur, California sea otters (a.k.a. southern sea otters, distinct from the northern Pacific subspecies found from Washington to Alaska) were nearly wiped out by the turn of the ...

Sea otter mothers face unique challenges in parenting. They give birth in the water to blind and helpless infants, who must be carried on their bellies for weeks. These devoted mothers nurse their ...

Female sea otters give birth to their pups at sea and raise them on their own for 6-8 months until the pup is weaned. These moms protect, feed, and teach their pups crucial survival skills. Sea ...

Sea otters were also reintroduced in the early 1970s to Washington’s Olympic Peninsula and Southeast Alaska where, ... Given that sea otters typically have one pup a year, ...

The life of a sea otter is filled with dangers, from oil spills and pollution to devastating storms and habitat loss. As the video above shows, even a powerful wave could potentially spell ...

The Monterey Bay Aquarium also released 37 sea otter pups at the reserve, ... per the Washington Post. “The otters are a just super voracious predator,” says study co-author Kerstin Wasson, ...

The orphaned sea otter who became a foster mother to 15 pups. By Malia Wollan No one knows how Rosa was orphaned in September 1999, in Santa Cruz County, Calif. She was nameless then, just 4 weeks ...

Mother otters teach pups how to groom themselves, to forage for tasty morsels like shellfish, to crack them open with a rock, to dive and even to swim. Baby otters hang around their moms for as long ...

A chilling new video shows an otter stalking a family down a dock before viciously attacking a little boy and dragging him into the water.. Surveillance footage shows the moment a mother was ...